orgiastic

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀργιαστικός (orgiastikós, “exciting”), from ὀργιαστής (orgiastḗs, “orgy celebrator”), from ὀργιάζειν (orgiázein, “to celebrate orgies”), from ὄργια (órgia).

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɔː(ɹ)d͡ʒiˈæstɪk/

  Rhymes: -æstɪk

Adjective

orgiastic (comparative more orgiastic, superlative most orgiastic)

1. Relating to an orgy; uncontrolled, wild. [from the late 16th c.]
   • 1919, Sax Rohmer, Dope

     Dancing was in progress, or, rather, one of those orgiastic ceremonies which passed for dancing during this pagan period.

   • 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 9, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 182:

     Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther … And one fine morning—

Translations

relating to an orgy

• Armenian: գինարբուքային (ginarbukʻayin), խրախճանային (xraxčanayin), օրգիաստիկ (ōrgiastik)
• Bulgarian: разюздан (bg) (razjuzdan), необуздан (bg) (neobuzdan)
• French: orgiastique (fr)
• Lithuanian: orgiškas
• Macedonian: ра́зуздан m (rázuzdan), оргија́шки m (orgijáški)
• Polish: orgiastyczny
• Russian: разну́зданный (ru) (raznúzdannyj)
• Spanish: orgiástico (es)
• Swedish: orgiastisk (sv)

Anagrams

• agoristic

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French orgiastique.

Adjective

orgiastic m or n (feminine singular orgiastică, masculine plural orgiastici, feminine and neuter plural orgiastice)

1. orgiastic

Declension

Declension of orgiastic

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	orgiastic		orgiastică	orgiastici	orgiastice
	definite	orgiasticul		orgiastica	orgiasticii	orgiasticele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	orgiastic		orgiastice	orgiastici	orgiastice
	definite	orgiasticului		orgiasticei	orgiasticilor	orgiasticelor